[Etherboot-discuss] windows 7 sanboot

[Mahboob A. <Mah...@ri...>]

I had a question about windows 7 sanboot and would appreciate some help.

So, when I try sanbooting windows 7, i noticed that it by default makes 2 partitions while installing. the first one is some 100 MB, that it uses for some configuration files and 12 Gb for other installation files. Now after I installed the windows 7 on to the local disk, i wanted to copy the image from local disk to my iscsi target. So, when i do fdisk -l on my local machine, it shows 2 partitions, so i did a dd command which starts from first cylinder and goes on till the last cylinder, in short, I am copying the whole thing ( 2 partitions) as one big Lun ( one partition). Now whats happening becuase of this is that, when I try to boot my laptop with this LUN, it starts fine, then it says bad hard disk and reboots again.

So, can some one please explain me, how i can copy the windows 7 image to a target with avoiding this issue.

btw, I have tried installing it directly to an iscsi target and it works fine, but my use case requires me to copy it to the local machine and then copying it over.

Thanks
Mahboob